The premise of this slim volume is simple: There's not enough study being done of the way that the ancient Greeks interacted with the Gods on a personal level. Plenty of research has been done, plenty of books written, about the civic religion of ancient Greece if you know where to look. There hasn't been as much of a survey of how the Greeks related to their gods individually. It isn't that the source material isn't there, Instone points out. It's just that people aren't really focusing on More...